Carb Question about Very High Air Flow on Synchrometer Options

[Craigers17]

Recently I tried installing my new 123 Disty, and, so far, I haven't had success. I ended up putting my old disty back in, and I've got it running again, but it won't hold idle. I put my sychrometer on each stack and they are all reading around 20, which is way high.

Normally, if I have the carbs dialed in correctly, my air flow meter usually reads somewhere from around 5.5 to 7 or so. I've never seen the synchrometer register any where near that high....much less on both carbs. The car did sit non-running for about 6 weeks, so the only thing that immediately comes to mind is that the jets all need cleaning. I'm gonna address that over the weekend, but wondered if anyone here had any ideas as to what might cause the air flow reading to be so high? I only had the car at about 1500 RPM when I took the readings. The carbs are dual 40's, with 28's, and neither the venturis nor any jet sizes or settings have changed in the last 8 months or so.

Any suggestions in pointing me in the right direction would be appreciated. Thanks.

[rfinegan]

Confirm your throttle butterfly plates are fully closed and open 1/2 turn so the transition slots are not exposed. By-pass screws are closed at this time too. Tune as needed. Start your mixture screw at about 1- to 1/2 turns. Check you idea jets for debris if the screws are unresponsive.
At 1500 rpm you will be moving more air than 5-7 on the snail flowmeters and possible pulling from the transitions circuit too.

[Craigers17]

Confirm your throttle butterfly plates are fully closed and open 1/2 turn so the transition slots are not exposed. By-pass screws are closed at this time too. Tune as needed. Start your mixture screw at about 1- to 1/2 turns. Check you idea jets for debris if the screws are unresponsive.
At 1500 rpm you will be moving more air than 5-7 on the snail flowmeters and possible pulling from the transitions circuit too.

Idle screws are at 1/2 turn in,...mixture screws at 1 turn out.....I haven't really changed those settings much. The 5-7 figure I used was when the car was running correctly at idle. Right now I can't get it to idle.